The Medium developer Bloober Team is partnering with Konami. This allows the studio to make games based on ‘existing and new franchises’ from Konami. According to anonymous sources, a project would be based on Silent Hill.
In a statement the two companies report that they have signed a ‘strategic cooperation agreement’. With the collaboration, the two companies will exchange knowledge and jointly develop games. The companies are not making any further announcements about the further details of the partnership. Konami reports that the two companies will “share more information once the details of the collaboration are decided.”
Video Games Chronicle writes, however, that one of the projects would be related to Silent Hill. The website relies on anonymous sources who are familiar with the plans of the two companies. VGC often publishes information about unannounced games and predicted, among other things, the arrival of the Mario 3D All Stars collection for the Nintendo Switch.
The rumor that Bloober Team is working on a Silent Hill game is not entirely unexpected. The studio mainly develops horror games and already hinted in February that it is working on a major horror franchise from another company. “We’ve been working on another horror franchise for over a year and we’re doing this for a very well-known publisher,” Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno told Gamesindustry.biz.
Rumors have been circulating for some time about the arrival of a new Silent Hill game. Silent Hill composer Yakira Yamaoka said in February that he was working on the music for an unannounced project to be revealed this summer, also reports Eurogamer. “I think it’s the one you hope to hear from,” the composer said in an interview. That video was later taken offline after the uploader received a request to do so.
The most recent game in the horror franchise, Silent Hill Downpour, was released in 2012. Konami has since been working on a Silent Hill game with Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and film director Guillermo del Toro, but that project was scrapped in 2015 after the relationship between Kojima and Konami deteriorated. After that, Konami would have considered several options for a reboot of the Silent Hill franchise. The publisher would have approached Dark Pictures developer Supermassive, among others, but this project would not have got off the ground, writes Eurogamer.
Bloober Team released its most recent horror game, The Medium, early this year